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The French Revolution Department of History University of Guelph Winter 2015 HIST*4580 The French Revolution Department of History University of Guelph Winter 2015 Classes: Mon. & Wed. 11:30-12:50 MACK 342 Instructor: Dr. W.S. Cormack Office: MacKinnon Extension 1012 Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-2:20 or by appointment 519 824-4120 Ex 53205 Wed . 9:30-11:00 [email protected] INTRODUCTION: This course explores the major themes of the French Revolution of 1789-1799 in the light of modern research. These include: the state of France on the eve of revolution, the crisis of the Old Regime, the Revolution of 1789, the Constituent Assembly’s reforms, the radicalization of the Revolution, the fall of the monarchy, the struggle in the National Convention, the role of the sans-culottes, the emergence of counter-revolution, the Terror, the collapse of the Jacobin dictatorship, and the subsequent efforts to establish political stability in France. The course also examines topics which sometimes receive less attention: the role of women, the upheaval in the Caribbean colonies, and the Revolution’s cultural dimensions. Throughout, the course places much emphasis on the historiographical debates regarding the nature and significance of the French Revolution. The course’s format is two weekly seminars: you will be expected to participate regularly in these discussions. Every seminar includes general readings for the entire class and specific readings which will be assigned to individual students. Many of these are available on Course Reserves in the library or will be placed in an envelope taped to my office door. TEXTBOOKS: William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution, 2nd Edition, (Oxford, 2002) R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, (Princeton, 1941; rpt. 2005) Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution, (Princeton, 1947; rpt. 2005) Page 1 of 17 ASSIGNMENTS: The first written assignment is a review of a book to be chosen from the list provided. This review should summarize the book’s contents, identify its central argument(s), assess the nature of its research, and suggest the work’s historiographical significance. An oral version of this review will be presented in an appropriate seminar which may precede the due date. The review should be approximately 1,000 words in length and must be submitted by Monday, February 2: late reviews will lose 2% per day. The principal assignment is a research essay on a topic of your choice related to the themes of the course. This essay should be approximately 3,500 words in length, should develop a cogent, well organized argument, and must use primary as well as secondary sources cited in proper footnotes or endnotes and listed in a proper bibliography at the end. It will be graded on the basis of its research, analysis, and composition (spelling, grammar, sentence construction, style, etc.). This essay must be submitted by Monday, March 23. Marks will be deducted from all late papers (2% per day) and no essay will be accepted after April 1. The course will conclude with a final exam based on material discussed in the seminars and on the assigned textbooks. If you find yourself unable to meet any in-course requirement due to illness or compassionate reasons, please advise me in writing, with your name, address and e-mail contact. This should be done as soon as possible, preferably in advance of the due date but certainly not more than one week later. In most cases, I will request from you appropriate documentation of your inability to meet the requirement. BREAKDOWN OF FINAL GRADE: • Book Review 10% • Oral Participation 30% • Research Essay 30% • Final Exam 30% COURSE OBJECTIVES / LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. By the conclusion of this course you will have a deeper understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of the French Revolution of 1789-99. 2. Your reading of assigned materials and your informed participation in seminar discussions will strengthen your appreciation of the nature and significance of historiographical debates. 3. Completion of the assigned essay will improve your abilities to carry out independent research of a topic, to formulate and to develop an argument based on this research, and to explain your ideas in clear and effective prose. Page 2 of 17 SOURCES ON RESERVE OR IN THE REFERENCE SECTION: Keith Michael Baker, Inventing the French Revolution, (Cambridge, 1990) DC 138. B23 Peter Campbell, ed., Conspiracy in the French Revolution, (Manchester, 2007) DC 147.8.C76 2007 Alfred Cobban, Aspects of the French Revolution, (London, 1968) DC 143 C6 Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt & William Max Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in Global Perspective, (Ithaca, 2013) DC 157. F74 3013 William Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution, (Oxford, 1988) DC 147.8 D69 Ferenc Fehér, ed., The French Revolution and the birth of modernity, (Berkeley, 1990) DC 148. F722 Alan Forrest & Peter Jones, eds., Reshaping France: Town, country and region during the French Revolution, (Manchester, 1991) DC 148.R47 1991 François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution, trans. E. Forster, (Cambridge, 1981) DC 138. F813 François Furet & Mona Ozouf, eds., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, (Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1989) Ref DC 148.D5313 1989t Douglas Johnson, ed., French Society and the Revolution, (Cambridge, 1976) DC 142.F7 Jeffry Kaplow, ed., New Perspectives on the French Revolution, (New York, 1965) DC 138.K3 Darlene G. Levy, Harriet Applewhite, & Mary Durham Johnson, eds, Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795, (Urbana, 1980) HQ 1616. W65 Gwynne Lewis & Colin Lucas, eds., Beyond the Terror: Essays in French Regional & Social History, (Cambridge, 1983) HN 425. B49 Colin Lucas, ed., Rewriting the French Revolution, (Oxford, 1991) DC 148.R49 1991 George Rudé, The Crowd in the French Revolution, (Oxford, 1959) DC 158.8 R91 Samuel F. Scott & Barry Rothaus, eds., Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799, (Westport, Con., 1985) Ref DC 147. H57 John Hall Stewart, ed., A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution, (Toronto, 1951) DC 141.7 S84 David G. Troyansky, Alfred Cismaru & Norwood Andrews, Jr., eds., The French Revolution in culture & society, (New York, 1991) DC 148 .F724 SOME INTERNET RESOURCES: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (http://chmn.gmu.edu/revolution/) Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html) France 1789-1871 EuroDocs (http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/France:_1789_-_1871) Page 3 of 17 I. FRANCE ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION: Part 1 (Jan. 5) General Reading: Doyle, Oxford History, pp. 1-26; Lefebvre, Coming, pp. 38-48, 100-107, 129-141. George V. Taylor, “Types of Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France,” English Historical Review, LXXIX (July 1964), 478-497. M. Vovelle & D. Roche, “Bourgeois, Rentiers, and Property Owners: Elements for Defining a Social Category at the End of the Eighteenth Century,” in Kaplow, ed., New Perspectives, pp. 25-46. P.M. Jones, The Peasantry in the French Revolution, (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 1-59. Jack A. Goldstone, “The Social Origins of the French Revolution Revisited,” in Thomas E. Kaiser & Dale K. Van Kley, eds., From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution, (Stanford, 2011), pp. 67-103. II FRANCE ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION: Part 2 (Jan.7) General Reading: Doyle, Oxford History, pp. 26-43; Lefebvre, Coming, pp. 1-20. John Hardman, Louis XVI, (New Haven, 1993), pp. 1-38, 39-100. Alfred Cobban, “The Parlements of France in the Eighteenth Century,” in Aspects of the French Revolution, pp. 68-82. Betty Behrens, “Nobles, Privileges and Taxes at the End of the Ancien Regime,” Economic History Review, XV, No. 3 (1963), 451-75. Dale K. Van Kley, “The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 1560-1791,” in Kaiser & Van Kley, eds., From Deficit to Deluge, pp. 104-138 REVIEW: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret, The French Nobility in the eighteenth century, trans. William Doyle, (Cambridge, 1985) OR Olwen Hufton, The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789, (Oxford, 1974) Page 4 of 17 III IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE REVOLUTION (Jan. 12) General Reading: Doyle, Oxford History, pp. 44-65. Norman Hampson, The Enlightenment, (Penguin Books, 1968; rpt. 1987), pp. 128-161, 251-263. J.K. Wright, “The Enlightenment,” in E. Berenson, V. Duclert & C. Prochasson, eds., The French Republic: History, Values, Debates, (Ithaca & London, 2011), pp. 11-18. Keith Baker, “On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution,” and “French Political thought at the ascension of Louis XVI,” in Inventing the French Revolution, pp. 12-27, 109-127. Robert Darnton, “The High Enlightenment and the Low Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France,” Past and Present, Vol. 51 (May 1971), 81-115; or in Johnson, ed., French Society and the Revolution, pp. 53-87. REVIEW: David Williams, Condorcet and Modernity, (Cambridge, 2004) OR James Swenson, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as one of the First Authors of the Revolution, (Stanford, 2000) IV THE CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME (Jan. 14) General Reading: Doyle, Oxford History, pp. 66-96; Lefebvre, Coming, pp. 21-36, 49-72. Hardman, Louis XVI, pp. 103-144. Robert D. Harris, “French Finances and the American War, 1777-1783,” Journal of Modern History, 48 (June 1967), 233-258. William Doyle, “The Parlements of France and the Breakdown of the Old Regime,” French Historical Studies, VI, No. 4 (Fall 1970), 415-458. Keith Baker, “Sieyès,” in Furet & Ozouf, eds., Critical Dictionary, pp. 313-323. REVIEW: William H. Sewell, A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyès and What is the Third Esate?, (Durham, NC, 1994) Page 5 of 17 V THE REVOLUTION OF 1789 (Jan. 19) General Reading: Doyle, Oxford History, pp. 96-123; Lefebvre, Coming, pp. 73-100, 108-126, 142-166, 183-203.
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